Cloud Chamber: A Performance with Real Time Two-Way Interaction Between Subatomic Particles and Violinist

A Kirke; E Miranda; A Chiaramonte; A Troisi; J Matthias; N Fry; C McCabe; J Radtke; M Bull

Cloud Chamber: A Performance with Real Time Two-Way Interaction Between Subatomic Particles and Violinist

A Kirke, E Miranda, A Chiaramonte, A Troisi, J Matthias, N Fry, C McCabe, J Radtke, M Bull

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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Abstract

‘Cloud Chamber’ - a composition by Alexis Kirke, Antonino Chiaramonte, and Anna Troisi - is a live performance in which the invisible quantum world becomes visible as a violinist and subatomic particle tracks interact together. An electronic instrument was developed which can be “played” live by radioactive atomic particles. Electronic circuitry was developed enabling a violin to create a physical force field that directly affects the ions generated by cosmic radiation particles. This enabled the violinist and the ions to influence each other musically in real time. A glass cloud chamber was used onstage to make radioactivity visible in bright white tracks moving within, with the tracks projected onto a large screen.

Original language	English
Number of pages	0
Journal	Leonardo
Volume	46
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2013

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